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📣 #ResearchNews: Tiny, blind, and without a skull 🐟 A Senckenberg team has discovered the new groundwater fish species Gitchak nakana in a well in Assam (Northeast India). This 2 cm long loach is one of the few fish species that live underground.
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Future engineers are soaring to new heights as they design the next generation of autonomous emergency rescue vehicles. A group at The Ohio State University has created “STUART,” a Small Transportable Uncrewed Aerial Rescue Technology flight vehicle. The team — called The Sloopy Works — designed STUART as an entry for the GoAERO Prize, a...
Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests. Using a special laser 3D printing method, researchers melted fake lunar soil – a synthetic version of the fine dusty material on the moon surface, called regolith simulant...
Though previous research has shown that bird populations are declining across North America, a new study is the first to show that the pace of loss has picked up speed since the mid-1980s in three regions: the Midwest, California and Mid-Atlantic states.After these hotspots of accelerated bird decline were revealed, researchers looked for factor...
Pickup basketball and neighborhood kickball are less common now than for generations past, giving way to more organized and formal youth sports intended to help kids get ahead, a new study suggests.Researchers found that compared to people born in earlier decades, youths born in the 1990s spent more of their recreational time playing formal spor...
Past studies in animals have shown that a highly processed diet is linked to memory problems and inflammation in the aged brain – and the effect can happen fast, after just three days of poor eating. A new study suggests another dietary pitfall could have a similar damaging effect in a similarly short amount of time in older adults: a lack of ...
Scientists have developed a method to assess whether tiny changes in Earth’s gravity can be used to predict oncoming earthquakes. Their conclusion: It can’t, which refutes a hypothesis which researchers thought would provide hope for better warnings. As one of the most mysterious of our planet’s natural disasters, earthquakes’ location a...
Off-putting smells can make even the healthiest of foods unpalatable. In a new study, researchers have developed a way to remove unpleasant aromas from plant-based proteins to make them smell more appealing. They did so by designing a two-step fermentation process to counter the odors that typically form during cultivation and extraction. The st...
A new study may change the way scientists think about the distance traveled by tiny bubbles carrying signals between cells that are embedded in tissue. These particles, called extracellular vesicles, are known to safely carry signaling cargo as a communication method between cells in bodily fluids and within tissue, and to influence health and d...
A new study in mice hints at the potential to use tiny particles made with RNA molecules to deliver chemotherapy drugs and other therapies directly to tumors, killing cancer cells without generating an immune response or toxicity-related side effects. Researchers constructed tiny molecular clusters called RNA micelles, loaded them with potent ch...
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